In Persephone, the Greek God Hades gets shot with a love arrow and falls in love. In iZombie Vol. 4, Gwen and friends have to deal with a zombie apocalypse and other supernatural happenings. In Plume, Vesper and her supernatural guardian travel through the Old West on a quest for revenge. Enjoy my mini reviews for these three graphic...
Posts with Tag: Historical Fantasy
Golgotha has always seemed to attract the strange, and the townspeople can attest to many weird happenings, but what's coming now isn't just weird, it's the end of the world. A darkness lives deep in the earth, in the silver mine, about to be awakened and unleashed, and it'll be up to Sheriff Jon Highfather and his people to stop...
Victor has sworn off alchemy, but the torment of an unkept promise and the allure of a strange box he finds in the ashes of the Dark Library tempt him into new territory---the spirit world. Victor's good intentions quickly turn to dangerous obsession, and Victor, Konrad, Elizabeth, and Henry may be in even more danger with each foray into this other...
Jakub and Cheshire are gangsters in an alternate 1930s. Having just left the Kozlow Gang due to the boss fearing Cheshire's magical abilities, they head to Chicago to start anew, only to get immediately roped into doing a job for a local gang and landing smack dab in the middle of an even bigger...
Victoria may be struggling with matters of the heart, but she has a job to do as a Gardella, and the demons that have found their way to earth through a portal are proving to be a much bigger problem than any vampire. The Venators will have to strike a deal with the one vampire they hate most if they want to succeed, and both Max and Sebastian will have difficult choices to...
Seventeen-year-old James wants adventure, so when his father tries to push him into a life of banking, he stows away on the Jolly Roger and accidentally becomes part of a pirate crew on their trip to Never Land. Between brewing faerie tensions, murderous pirates, near-death experiences, and love, he certainly gets an adventure, but it doesn't turn out to be quite the one he'd hoped...
Hettie is back in the states and back to her task of finding the cause of the soothsayer blackout, but it's proving difficult, and Zavi is back, along with a gang lead by someone using Hettie's name and face. Meanwhile, Ling has found a mentor for Abby but is having difficulties solving his own...
It's been five years since the events of the last book. Unrest between the Daeva and shafit in the hidden djinn city of Daevabad is growing while Ghassan continues to rule with an iron fist, squashing anyone who opposes him into submission, including Nahri and, when he's forced into coming back, Ali. But outside the city, dangerous plans are brewing as well, plans that could drastically change...
It's still Prohibition Era in Chicago, and Nick continues to guard the gate to Feirie, but when one of his oldest enemies shows back up in his life, he has bigger problems than rogue fae. Both and Claryce are more tangled up in Galerius's plans and history than either of them realized, and they'll need all of their allies if they want any chance of beating this...
Aurelia reveals that she's a witch in order to help her brothers flee after they're turned into vampires, but doing so sets off a chain of events that leaves her duty-bound to become immortal and help her mother protect the world from a demon who would wreak havoc. But she's not alone; her eternity will be spent with the oracle Hame... who doesn't love her back the way she wants him to. Then...